Extending Factory Track - Best practices

Hello Community,

Does anyone already extended Factory Track (I guess so !) to add a new transaction ? We would like to have some information on the main steps we should follow. Should we start from an existing transaction and adapt it for our own usage ? should we start from new ? how can we add this new transaction as a new menu option in FT ...

We have followed the standard Infor Mongoose development training but his doesn't give us any tips on developing inside FT context.

Many thanks for your precious help !

Regards.

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nishanthaeka

Hi David,

I have completed some extending projects in on-premise and cloud. I have used "Infor Factory Track M3 Extensibility Guide" latest guide. It is containing all the steps which are need with examples. Please let me know if you want further help.

Thank you

Regards,

Nishantha.

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What's your setup with Factory Track ? Is it integrated with Syteline/CSI ? Or LN/M3/other?

In our case it's with CSI/Syteline 9.01.01 on-premise and BarTender for labels, and we use Infor's guide "Infor Factory Track Extensibility Guide for CSI.pdf", explaining the basis.

From what I understand, it all works at Mongoose level through Custom Assemblies, with a similar IDO Method on each side (FT -vs- CSI/Syteline) so the parameters must match, and that's what pushes data from FT to the ERP database.
To display information from the ERP database to FT, it seems to work mainly via SQL Views, most of the time encapsulated in such Custom Assemblies / IDO Methods.

As a general rule, with Mongoose I try to start from a similar pre-existing feature and then adapt it; but with Custom Assemblies it's compiled code to which you do not have access (or please tell me how, otherwise) so you would need to recreate this part "from scratch".

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FactoryTrack custom assembly code is not available, unlike CSI/SyteLine. If you can get your hands on the relevant .dlls, you can Google "decompilers" and maybe you'll find an answer there... ;-)

nishanthaeka

Hi David,

Thank you

Regards,

Nishantha.

David Tollet

Ok thanks for your help Nishantha and Florent. I get the latest "Infor Factory Track M3 Extensibility Guide" (the November 13, 2020 version) and, ndeed, it gives some guidelines about how to add new transactions !

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